The layered rocks of the Colorado Plateau—the uplifted floor of an immense, filled impact basin? Island in the Sky at Canyonlands National Park. I recently had occasion to make an extended car trip ...

Native history, science, and climate change materials in national parks across the Colorado Plateau are targeted for federal ...

The Colorado Plateau had thirteen additional spring visitors this year. More conspicuous in our convoy of rental cars than the migratory geese that loudly pronounce spring’s arrival, at times more ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists led by Rice University has figured out why the Colorado Plateau – a 130,000-square-mile region that straddles Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico -- is rising ...

Conservationists are lobbying the Bureau of Land Management to overhaul its policies in the Colorado Plateau after the agency’s own study indicated big alterations are coming over the next 50 years ...

In March, I had the pleasure of spending a week on the Colorado Plateau with fellow students and professors from the Advanced Natural Resources Law Seminar. The Colorado Plateau – a heart-shaped ...

The Epic Journey of Geology 310's Crew, Summer 2008 Traipsing in the Blue Ridge. Scuttling about that incredible granite exposure at Richmond’s Belle Isle. A departmental trip to the Potomac River’s ...

MY HEART SANK at the sight of my friend Avery's mountain bike, its wheels in the air, the handlebars resting in the hot, sandy soil of Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau. Avery was fine—there'd been no ...

PARACHUTE, Colo. — From the ground, the Roan Plateau is a craggy mass of tree-dotted rock that rises half a mile out of the high desert of western Colorado. From the air, however, it is 54,000 acres ...

Scientists have figured out why the Colorado Plateau -- a 130,000-square-mile region that straddles Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico -- is rising even while parts of its lower crust appear to be ...